"On a windy September morning, Josh and Jordan Gackle huddled to discuss the looming crisis facing their North Dakota soybean farm

"On a windy September morning, Josh and Jordan Gackle huddled to discuss the looming crisis facing their North Dakota soybean farm.

For the first time in the history of their 76-year-old operation, their biggest customer — China — had stopped buying soybeans. Their 2,300-acre soybean farm is projected to lose $400,000 in 2025."

~ Alan Rappeport

#Trump #economy #farmers #agriculture #soybeans #NorthDakota #tariffs #BigBeautifulBill #Republicans
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/business/china-us-soybeans-farming.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mE8.lQnO.17ofv8vdtNpz

"Soybeans that would normally be harvested and exported to Asia are now set to pile up in large steel bins.

Since President Trump imposed tariffs on Chinese goods in February, Beijing has retaliated by halting all purchases of American soybeans."

#Trump #economy #farmers #agriculture #soybeans #NorthDakota #tariffs #BigBeautifulBill #Republicans
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"In Tioga County, where President Donald Trump won 75 percent of the vote in 2024, farmers are losing patience with the White House’s promise of a quick solution for farm workers. Their urgent need is highlighted by stories like those of a multigenerational dairy farm that sold off all its dairy cows because the owner could not find workers and another where a farmer’s job listings have received no responses."

#Trump #economy #farmers #agriculture #NewYork
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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/15/farm-labor-shortage-pennsylvania-trump-immigration-00560820

"Farmers in the rural region near the New York border say those stories are not unique.

'The whole thing is screwed up,' said John Painter, a three-time Trump voter who runs an organic dairy farm in Westfield. 'We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do.'”

#Trump #economy #farmers #agriculture #NewYork #immigrants #deportations #ICE #MaskedThugs #labor #workers
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"This month, after another disappointing Jobs Report, President Donald Trump is once again looking around for someone to blame. There is no pandemic, despite RFK’s best efforts; no external supply shocks that Trump himself didn’t cause through his tariff regime. Donald Trump has spiked the baton he was handed by the Biden administration, and he has no one to blame but himself."

~ Julie A. Su

#Trump #economy #tariffs #Republicans #BigBeautifulBill
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-jobs-report-is-the-trump-presidency

"As Trump talks about creating a historic manufacturing boom, the data shows he has lost tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs. As he touts an economy that’s working for American workers, Trump’s economy has more workers looking for a job than job openings for the first time since the depths of the pandemic."

#Trump #economy #tariffs #Republicans #BigBeautifulBill #jobs #manufacturing
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"Despite promising to stop inflation on day one, working- and middle-class Americans are still being squeezed financially as Trump cuts taxes for the wealthy and massive corporations. …

All of what we’re seeing from the Trump administration is a choice to put corporations ahead of caretakers, the wealthy ahead of workers, and the bosses ahead of the busboys."

#Trump #economy #tariffs #Republicans #BigBeautifulBill #jobs #manufacturing #inflation
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"President Donald Trump has said foreign workers sent to the United States are 'welcome' and he doesn’t want to 'frighten off' investors, 10 days after hundreds of South Koreans were arrested at a work site in Georgia.

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote: 'I don’t want to frighten off or disincentivize investment.'"

~ Agence France-Presse

#Trump #economy #manufacturing #jobs #SouthKorea #ICE #immigrants #Georgia
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/15/trump-foreign-workers-welcome-south-korea-arrests